Calendar
of Events
Fr.
Russell Radoidich will be here to celebrate
Liturgy
with us this month:
August 26th: Vespers
at 7:00 pm
August 27th Hours
at 9:30 am, Liturgy to follow
Pot
luck fellowship to follow downstairs. We are doing a Mexican theme
so - Bring a dish to share.
Don't
forget to turn in your Stewardship Form.
The
Church needs your help and support. If you have not turned your stewardship
form in yet, please do so.
Volunteers Needed:
We
will need help in the future hanging up posters announcing our upcoming
liturgies. If you are willing to help, please contact Robert Holter
at (406) 439-1575.
Meditation
on the beginning of the Church Year:
This is good, and it pleases God our Savior, who
wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth. 1
Timothy 2L3-4
St Moses The Strong Orthodox Mission
Helena Montana,
Newsletter September 2011
St
Clement of Alexandria on Prayer
To describe it with the boldest expression,
prayer is a conversation with God. Even if we speak with a low
voice, even if we whisper without opening the lips, even if we call to
Him only from the depths of the heart, our unspoken word always reaches
God and God always hears. Sometimes, however, besides speaking,
we lift our head and raise our arms to heaven. In this way we are
underlining the desire that the spirit has for the spiritual world. We
are striving with the word to raise our body above the earth. We
are giving wings to the soul for it to reach the good things on high.
A Prayer
O Lord,
I
praise, bless, venerate, glorify, and thank Your goodness for all, through
all, and in all; for You have delivered by soul from death, my eyes from
tears and my feet from slipping. I have sinned against heaven and
before You. Have mercy on me, O Lord, and do not destroy me together
with my sins. Test me, O God, and examine my paths; see if there
is a way of transgression in me, and turn me away from it; and lead me
into the eternal way, O God. You who have said; I am the way and
the truth and the life for you are blessed unto the ages. AMEN. St. Macarius
Saint of
the MonthÉ
Saint Sophia and her daughters September
17th
These
Saints were from Italy and contested for the Faith about the year 126,
during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. Faith was twelve years old, Hope,
ten, and Love, nine; each was tormented and then beheaded, from the eldest
to the youngest. Their mother Sophia mourned at their grave for three days,
where she also fell asleep in peace; because of her courageous endurance
in the face of her daughters' sufferings, she is also counted a martyr.
The name Sophia means "wisdom" in Greek; as for her daughters'
names, Faith, Hope, and Love (Charity), they are Pistis, Elpis, and Agape
in Greek, and Vera, Nadezhda, and Lyubov in Russian
Important Feast Days
Nativity
of the Theotokos September
8th
Your Nativity, O Theotokos, has proclaimed joy to the whole universe; for from
You did shine forth the Sun of justice, Christ our God, annulling the
curse, and bestowing the blessing, abolishing death and granting use
life everlasting.
Dismissal Hymn of the Feast
Elevation
of the Cross-September 14th
Your Cross-, O Master, we adore, and Your Holy Resurrection we Praise. (Kontakion)
St. Moses Parish News
Please remember the recently departed, Lisa Rose, may her memory be eternal!
Don't forget to pray for the sick and suffering.
Watch for further details on possible upcoming Baptisms and chrismations!
Please Help us get news to you as quickly as possible – if you
have an e-mail address please submit it to Reader rob to have it added
the church list! You can send your e-mail to: drlholter@yahoo.com
Words
of Wisdom from Farther John of Kronstadt:
Peace
is the integrity and health of the soul; to lose peace is to lose spiritual
health.